Sr Citizens Have To Sell Prescriptions To pay for heat

By ROGER ALFORD, Associated Press Writer - Mon Dec 12

GWB has not failed to make sure his CEOs & very wealthy are taken care of forget about the poor and elderly.

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. - Dottie Neeley, 87, was fingerprinted, photographed and thrown in jail, imprisoned as much by the tubing from her oxygen tank as by the concrete and steel around her.

The woman — who spent two days in jail after her arrest last December — is among a growing number of Kentucky senior citizens charged in a crackdown on a crime authorities say is rampant in Appalachia: Elderly people are reselling their painkillers and other medications to addicts.

"When a person is on Social Security, drawing $500 a month, and they can sell their pain pills for $10 apiece, they'll take half of them for themselves and sell the other half to pay their electric bills or buy groceries," Floyd County jailer Roger Webb said.

Since April 2004, Operation UNITE, a Kentucky anti-drug task force crated largely in response to rampant abuse of the powerful and sometimes lethal painkiller OxyContin, has charged more than 40 people 60 or older with selling primarily prescription drugs in the mountains.

"It used to be a rare occasion to have an elderly inmate," Webb said. "Five years ago it was a rarity."

Local jails are having to bear the increased cost of caring for old and often sickly inmates.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_he_me/elderly_drug_dealers

them homos can't get married and we're all safer now that Tookie Williams has been fried.

medical care (for what it's worth) is free in prison.

Putting an 87-year-old woman in jail for two days. If you have to charge her, then do it, but you can do it without jailing her. Just give her a court summons.

And who has been prez during these last 5 years????

colossal racist failure*.